Change "." text input to "%."

[1MOTIONJooshii (Jooshii)]

Hello, I am trying to make a search bar where it could detect a period input (.) and change it to (%.) so it would search strings that has a period on it. Any suggestions?

[ellienonekomimi (nkmi)]

You can use string.gsub:

local function sub(str : string) : string
    local formatted, _ = string.gsub(str, "%.", "%%")
    return formatted
end

[1MOTIONJooshii (Jooshii)]

Nevermind, I just found out that it can detect periods just by using (%.) as the matching string.